Raspberry Pi anyone?

[CitroJim]

Splendid stuff Xac..

You know, we'll soon have you extolling the virtues of the vi editor at this rate

[Xaccers]

I use nano

[Mandrake]

I use nano

I was about to say the same... I was sysadmin of many Linux servers for years and used, yep, nano. (or pico which was identical) Never felt a need to learn vi or emacs even though I was doing quite a lot of shell scripting and of course conf file editing...all my servers had the default editor changed from vi to nano.

Scrolling, insert typing, cut and paste, search, what else do you need ? I'm sure I'll loose a lot of Linux geek cred for admitting to never using vi or emacs but who cares...

[Xaccers]

I vaguely remember vi from my days at uni, where I lost my network access for 2 weeks for mudding.

[Ben82]

I actually switched from nano to vim about a year or so ago, for one main thing, syntax highlighting (yes nano has some, but not as extensive as vim)

I only know a handful of vim commands, but its enough to get me by

[CitroJim]

I use nano

That's a girl's editor

I jest. I only use vi because some of the systems I work on have nothing else so familiarity is essential and regular use of vi is essential so as not to inadvertently make a dog's breakfast of something critical.

I even have gvim (a port of vi to Windows) installed on some of my Windows machines... Just for editing stuff destined for the Unix world as Notepad can occasionally have undesirable effects when editing some Unix shell scripts...

I like nano. It's good.

Never ever used emacs...

[Xaccers]

Jim can you cast your eyes over this code

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from i2clibraries import i2c_lcd
from time import * 

# Configuration parameters
# I2C Address, Port, Enable pin, RW pin, RS pin, Data 4 pin, Data 5 pin, Data 6 pin, Data 7 pin, Backlight pin (optional)
lcd = i2c_lcd.i2c_lcd(0x27,0, 2, 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3)

# If you want to disable the cursor, uncomment the following line
# lcd.command(lcd.CMD_Display_Control | lcd.OPT_Enable_Display)

lcd.backLightOn()

lcd.writeString("Python I2C LCD")
lcd.setPosition(2, 3) 
lcd.writeString("For the Pi")

I should be able to add

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message = The rain in spain
lcd.writeString(message)

and have it display The rain in spain on the LCD right?

print(message) would do that.

[CitroJim]

I should be able to add

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message = The rain in spain
lcd.writeString(message)

and have it display The rain in spain on the LCD right?

print(message) would do that.

I would tend to agree with that Xac. I looked up the declaration and use of variables in Python and that seems to be good.

Only one way to find out

[Xaccers]

I tried last night and it just displayed: message
Will have to try tonight.

[CitroJim]

Ummm,

The library that has that function is not following rules. have you looked at the code within the library?

[spider]

Is this the topic for assembly language ?

* looks around *

No, goes back to his assembler

[CitroJim]

Is this the topic for assembly language ?

By all means Andy... I used to back in Z80/8080 and CP/M days...

[Xaccers]

Eureka I've done it.
Used a bash script to get the temperature (temp=xx.x'C).
I call that within the python script and chop it down to remove the temp=

[CitroJim]

Eureka I've done it.
Used a bash script to get the temperature (temp=xx.x'C).
I call that within the python script and chop it down to remove the temp=

Let's see your code then Xac

[Xaccers]

Eureka I've done it.
Used a bash script to get the temperature (temp=xx.x'C).
I call that within the python script and chop it down to remove the temp=

Let's see your code then Xac

The bash script

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#!/bin/bash
#get system temperarure and save as 'sysTemp'

/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp > sysTemp

# this creates a file called sysTemp in current directory

The Python3 script

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import sys, subprocess
# appends to PYTHONPATH the location of the example codes
sys.path.append("/home/pi/quick2wire-python-api/")

from i2clibraries import i2c_lcd
from time import * 

subprocess.call("/home/pi/temp.sh")

# Configuration parameters
# I2C Address, Port, Enable pin, RW pin, RS pin, Data 4 pin, Data 5 pin, Data 6 pin, Data 7 pin, Backlight pin (optional)
lcd = i2c_lcd.i2c_lcd(0x20,1, 2, 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3)

# If you want to disable the cursor, uncomment the following line
lcd.command(lcd.CMD_Display_Control | lcd.OPT_Enable_Display)


lcd.backLightOn()

def line1():
	lcd.writeString("Current Temp:")

def line2():
	fo = open("sysTemp")
	str = fo.read()
	fo.close()
	lcd.writeString(str.strip().strip("temp="))

lcd.clear()
line1()
lcd.setPosition(2, 0) 
line2()